Many days I believe Menopause is the new (if long overdue) frontier for the most compelling and necessary philosophy
Darcey Steinke is already there, blazing the way.
It\'s a deeply feminist book--honest about the intimations of mortality that Menopause brings while also arguing for the ascendancy, beauty, and power of the post-reproductive years..
Flash Count Diary, with its deep research, open play of ideas, and reverence for the female body, will change the way you think about menopause.
Weaving together her personal story with philosophy, science, art, and literature, Steinke reveals that in the seventeenth century, women who had hot flashes in front of others could be accused of being witches; that the model for Duchamp\'s famous tant donn s was a post-reproductive woman; and that killer whales--one of the only other species on earth to undergo menopause--live long post-reproductive lives.
She explores the changing gender landscape that comes with reduced hormone levels, and lays bare the transformation of female desire and the realities of prejudice against older women.
In Flash Count Diary, Steinke writes frankly about aspects of Menopause that have rarely been written about before.
But Steinke longed to understand Menopause in a more complex, spiritual, and intellectually engaged way.
Others encouraged acceptance.
Some books Steinke found promoted hormone replacement therapy.
Menopause is seen as a harbinger of death.
Menstruation signals fertility and life, and childbirth is revered as the ultimate expression of womanhood.
Throughout history, the Natural physical transition of Menopause has been viewed as something to deny, fear, and eradicate.
As she struggled to express what was happening to her, she came up against a culture of silence.
Then depression.
Then insomnia.
First came hot flashes. --Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts A brave, brilliant, and unprecedented examination of Menopause Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard.
I\'m about to buy it for everyone I know.
This elegant, wise, fascinating, deeply moving book is an instant classic.
Many days I believe Menopause is the new (if long overdue) frontier for the most compelling and necessary philosophy
Darcey Steinke is already there, blazing the way
